CHP: Driver killed, two others hurt in Altadena collision

ALTADENA - A 79-year-old driver from Altadena was killed while her passenger and another motorist were injured when two cars collided Wednesday night.

Coroner’s officials didn’t release the dead woman’s name because her relatives haven’t been notified.

The fatal crash happened at 7:35 p.m. on Ventura Street at Glenrose Avenue.

California Highway Patrol Officer Jason Protzman said a 1996 Toyota Corolla was southbound on Glenrose Avenue at the intersection with Ventura Street while a 2009 Audi A4 was heading west on Ventura Street.

“For reasons still under investigation, it is yet to be determined the sequence of events leading up to the specific cause of the collision,” Protzman said in the statement.

The cars hit each other. As a result of the impact, he said both cars proceeded in a westerly direction and came to rest blocking the westbound lane of Ventura Street.

Protzman said the woman driving the Corolla was taken to Huntington Hospital where she was died from her injuries at 9:14 p.m.

The 91-year-old Altadena man who was a passenger in the Corolla suffered a fractured back, according to the officer.

Protzman said the Audi’s driver, a 26-year-old Pasadena man, suffered minor abrasions to his left foreman. The Audi’s passenger, a 1-year-old baby, wasn’t injured.

The investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call the CHP’s Altadena area office at 626-296-8100.